Little Green GIANT
Sep 14, 2018
4 minutes
BY JEFFERSON KOLLE
PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL TREMBLAY
ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL SVIRSKY
One summer Sunday, as they reluctantly prepared to corral their two boys and hit the road at the end of another weekend at the Jamestown, Rhode Island, beach house they shared with their extended family, Don and Dana Powers confronted the question: “Why don’t we live how we really want to live?”
And with that they decided they would leave their house in Providence, where Don’s architectural office is located, and find a new home in the small island community across a toll bridge from Newport. Thus began a two-and-a-half-year hunt that ended with an accepted offer on a 1,000-square-foot TV.
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